This reminds me of attitudes to Quantum Physics. Most current physics professors I’ve meat have a sort of learned helplessness relationship to quantum interpretations, subscribing to something like “shut up and calculate” (i.e. don’t even try to understand). There is an attitude that quantum is too strange and therefore impossible to understand. Where as the newer generation of post-docs and grand students don’t shy away from quantum interpretations, and discussions of ontology. However, this falls a bit outside your model, since quantum mechanics is ~100 year old.
This reminds me of attitudes to Quantum Physics. Most current physics professors I’ve meat have a sort of learned helplessness relationship to quantum interpretations, subscribing to something like “shut up and calculate” (i.e. don’t even try to understand). There is an attitude that quantum is too strange and therefore impossible to understand. Where as the newer generation of post-docs and grand students don’t shy away from quantum interpretations, and discussions of ontology. However, this falls a bit outside your model, since quantum mechanics is ~100 year old.